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| “ | You know what? Screw the wedding. Portia was nothing special anyway. | „ |
| ~ Rollins displaying his misogyny and cowardice as David Rossi threatens him. |
Wick Rollins is the secondary antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "The Dance of Love". He is a misogynistic con artist who romances wealthy women and then abuses them until their families pay him to go away.
He is portrayed by Bobby Campo.
Overview[]
Rollins makes his living sweeping women from wealthy families off their feet, proposing to them, and then beating them until their families pay him to get out of their daughters' lives. He has been arrested several times for domestic violence, but each time he talks his victims into dropping the charges by promising to change. He then takes payoffs from the women's families and disappears.
In "The Dance of Love"[]
Rollins' newest victim, Portia Richards, is the daughter of Krystall Richards, who is well-off following her divorce from her second husband, Portia's father. He wins Krystall over with his good looks and veneer of chivalrous charm, so she introduces him and Portia to her first ex-husband, Supervisory Agent David Rossi of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), with whom she has recently gotten back in touch. Rossi is troubled by Rollins' controlling behavior toward Portia, however, as well as his barely controlled anger when they go out to an FBI shooting range and a female agent scores higher marks than him.
Without Krystall or Portia's knowledge, Rossi asks BAU Technical Analyst Penelope Garcia to look into Rollins' past, and she discovers multiple arrests for domestic violence and several cash payments to him from his former fiancées' families. Rossi tells Krystall and Portia that Rollins is a con artist, but they refuse to believe him. Rollins, meanwhile, manipulates Portia into believing that the arrests were "misunderstandings", and that he is a changed man since meeting her.
Rollins goes to Rossi's house to ban him from the wedding and to gloat that he plans to take her family for all they are worth. Unintimidated, Rossi nearly breaks Rollins' hand, and then tells him that he is due to testify at a violent criminal's parole hearing in a few days, but that he might not show up; he then says that the criminal might interpret his absence as a favor and do whatever he asks in order to repay him. Understanding the threat, Rollins reluctantly agrees to call off the wedding, spitefully remarking that Portia is "nothing special". He breaks up with a heartbroken Portia that night, and disappears from her life.
Trivia[]
- Rollins appears to be inspired by Raymond Fernandez, a serial con artist of women he would marry, only to flee after daylight robberies against the women. After he met his wife, Martha Beck, she became jealous of the women in his cons, and the couple resorted to murder.
